Article: BAKKER RESENTENCING ORDERED.(Main)

Byline: Jean McNair Associated Press

The judge who gave evangelist Jim Bakker a 45- year prison term was influenced by his own religious beliefs, an appeals court said Tuesday. It ordered Bakker resentenced by a different judge.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond upheld Bakker's 1989 conviction on 24 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy.

But the three-judge panel threw out the sentence because of remarks made by U.S. District Judge Robert D. Potter at the sentencing hearing in Charlotte, N.C. The court ordered that Bakker be resentenced by a different judge.

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